LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hu Meena, president and CEO of Cellular South, has been elected Chairman of the Board of the Rural Cellular Association (RCA), the nation’s leading industry group representing competitive wireless communications providers.
Meena was unanimously elected by association members from across the U.S. during RCA’s 19th annual Convention and Innovation Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. He will serve as chairman until April 2012.
“Wireless communications and mobile computing devices are an essential part of every consumer’s personal and professional life,” said Meena, who heads the nation’s largest privately owned wireless communications provider. “All consumers, no matter where they live or work, deserve access to the latest devices and the best networks operating with the latest technology.”
Meena takes over the leadership post as the association works to ensure that customers of its member companies have access to data services and devices whenever they are in range of a compatible network and that pro-competitive and pro-consumer policies are pursued on issues like interoperability, Universal Service support, spectrum allocation and device exclusivity.
“Deployment of next generation 4G high-speed data services and access to interoperable nationwide 4G data services is the future of our industry and critically important to our members and their customers,” Meena said. “We share the vision and support federal policies that encourage and support the deployment of broadband services throughout all parts of the U.S.”
RCA is continuing to work with the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Congress to support legislation and federal policies that promote ubiquitous wireless broadband deployment and encourage healthy competition between service providers.
“This is a critical time for our industry and for consumers, especially those that live in rural and regional markets,” said Steven K. Berry, president and CEO of RCA. “Hu is an industry veteran. He’s been a tireless and eloquent advocate for competitive carrier issues for more than two decades, and we look forward to his leadership and direction.”
Meena was general manager and vice president of operations and development before being president of Cellular South in 1997. During his tenure, Cellular South has grown to become the nation’s largest privately held wireless communications provider and the eighth largest carrier in the U.S. The company provides wireless communications services to all of Mississippi and parts of four other states in the southeast region.
About Cellular South
Headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., Cellular South is a diversified mobile communications company passionately committed to helping customers get the most out of their wireless devices and services. The nation’s largest privately owned wireless communications provider accomplishes this goal by optimizing customers’ app experience through Discover Apps, providing the most reliable and advanced high-speed nationwide wireless voice and data network, offering industry-leading family and unlimited flat rate voice, text and mobile web plans, and through its online and in-store Discover Centers, which give customers easy, simple and convenient tools, tips, advice and information on how to get the most out of their mobile phone. For more information about Cellular South and its products and services, visit www.cellularsouth.com or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cellularsouth, on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cellularsouth or on YouTube at www.youtube.com/cellularsouth .
About Rural Cellular Association (RCA)
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., RCA is the nation’s leading association for wireless providers serving rural areas of the United States. The licensed service area of RCA’s nearly 80 members covers more than 80 percent of the nation.
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